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...certain prejudices which may in varying measure predetermine their opinions on the news." They listed a catalogue of typical convictions: "1. A belief that the world is round and an admiration of the statesman's 'view of all the world.' "2. A general distrust of the pres ent tendency toward increasing inter ference by the government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Mar. 17, 1952 | 3/17/1952 | See Source »

...five poems in the Advocate are generally superior to the prose contributions. Donald Hall's "Epithalamion" is a haunting treatment of an old theme--the marriage of opposites. "Saint-Germain-des-Pres," by Lyon Phelps, is entirely an evocation of atmosphere, and it succeeds admirably within this limited intention. Lee Austin's "Truro; 1854" and Will Morgan's "The Golden Legend" are both musical and cryptically romantic, "Cryptic" would be too mild, however, to describe Douglas Freelander's "Almyra." As far as this reader is concerned, it is 16 lines of downright obscurantism...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: ON THE SHELF | 12/14/1950 | See Source »

...singing "the old songs" at political rallies. Bush was opposed by starchy Vivien Kellems, a Stonington manufacturer, one of the few Americans who is far enough to the right to be considered patriotic by Westbrook Pegler. Vivien stopped the roll call when it reached 27 for her, 187 for Pres Bush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONNECTICUT: The Windstorm | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

Flirting With a Bogy. Some of the best Soviet advertising appears in the LIFE-like magazine Ogonek, which uses U.S.-style layouts. Many Ogonek ads are similar to U.S. wartime institutional advertising, i.e., they boost goods not pres ently available. Other Ogonek displays feature the Mikoyan Meat Trust and that old Russian delicacy, caviar (see cut). Price: only 40 rubles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: The Kremlin's Huckster | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

Andrew Eliot Samuel Eliot | Samuel Eliot Samuel Eliot | | Wm. Greenleaf Eliot Samuel Eliot | Wm. Greenleaf E. Jr Pres. Chas. Wm. Eliot | Henry Ware Eliot | Thomas Stearns Eliot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 27, 1950 | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

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